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ABOUT

Carly is a software engineer at Slack HQ in San Francisco. As an Application engineer on the Enterprise team, Carly is a lead developer for Slack’s billing products. She has contributed to projects ranging from Slackbot to Enterprise Search in her first year at the company.

Carly’s blog began as an effort to document her transition from acting to non-profits to software engineering.

Her professional experience is eclectic. Before becoming a software engineer Carly worked as a professional actress, and served as the Assistant Director for a non-profit that works to end human trafficking. If you are interested in some of her previous career highlights, check out the drop down menu.

Carly attended Hackbright Academy in San Francisco in the summer 2015 cohort.

Carly hopes this blog will be a useful resource to anyone with an unconventional background who dreams of becoming a software engineer.